Required Textbooks:Principles
of Modern Chemistry, 6th, 7th, or 8th editions
Oxtoby, Gillis, and CampionAlthough you may purchase the ebook version if you
like, you will
not be able to use it on our open-book exams. I therefore
advise
you to purchase a physical copy of the text. Webpage: All
course materials, including the syllabus, daily lecture summaries,
homework problems and solution keys, quiz solution keys, exam
solution keys, and practice exams will be posted on this site.
We will use Canvas's grade center to post grades. I will
periodically communicate important class announcements to you
through email. It is very important that you update your UT
directory information with the email that you check most often.
I will also post these class announcements on the course
webpage.

Course Objective: This
course is an advanced exploration of the principles and foundations
of modern chemistry.This
course is intended for students who have had good chemistry
preparation at the high school level and who wish to develop
significantly more insight into the physical principles underlying
the science of chemistry.After
a brief review of classical bonding, we will study the foundations
of quantum mechanics and apply these concepts to atomic and
molecular structure, chemical bonding, and the experimental and
theoretical methods that are used by modern chemists to study these
phenomena.Near the
end of the semester we will study the fundamental principles of
classical and statistical thermodynamics.

The goal of this semester is to learn how atomic and
molecular structures, defined by quantum mechanics, cause the
physical properties of molecules that are observed in
experiments. Significant questions that are addressed
throughout the semester include:

**What experimental results can only be explained if energy
is quantized, not continuous?

**How does the structure of the atom determine the structure
of molecules?

**How does molecular structure generate the physical
properties of molecules measured in experiments?

Throughout the course, I will encourage you to
engage the ways that science in general and chemistry in
particular affect your daily life.

This course carries the Quantitative Reasoning flag.
Quantitative Reasoning courses are designed to equip you with skills
that are necessary for understanding the types of quantitative
arguments you will regularly encounter in your adult and
professional life. You should therefore expect a substantial
portion of your grade to come from your use of quantitative skills
to analyze real-world problems.

Core
Curriculum Objectives: This course may be used to fulfill
three hours of the natural science and technology (Part I or Part
II) component of the university core curriculum and addresses the
following four core objectives established by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board: communication skills, critical
thinking skills, teamwork, and empirical and quantitative skills.

Communication skills:Students will work in class, on homework and on exams to
apply scientific models to explain empirical data as well as to
use models to predict physical and chemical change.Students will be able to connect mathematical formulas
and graphical representations to communicate scientific concepts.

Critical Thinking: Students are presented with many
opportunities to use critical thinking skills to solve problems
both in class via clicker response system and on graded homework
assignments.These
skills are assessed on the exams.

Teamwork:Students
work in small groups in class on guided group activities designed
to help the student come to a deeper understanding of the content
and to "discover" chemical principles via the process of inquiry.Outside of class students are encouraged to continue
working in groups to better understand homework assignments.

Quantitative Skills: Students are required to
calculate answers based on their understanding of scientific laws
and derived equations.These
methods include skills in manipulating units, understanding and
applying the concept of ratios, proportionality, rearranging
algebraically to solve for a specified unknown, understanding and
applying rates of change, interpreting equations using physical
models.These skills
are assessed on the exams.

Lectures and Attendance:
I will not be taking attendance, but I will also not be
posting lecture notes. You may compare and copy lecture notes
from classmates to make sure you have an accurate and complete set
of notes for yourself, but I strongly discourage you from relying on
others for your notes. To supplement your own note-taking, I
will post daily summaries of what I consider to be the most
important notes from that day's lecture, but these will not be
comprehensive.

Quizzes and Homework:
There will be 6 closed-book, closed-note quizzes given in
class on Tuesdays. Quiz dates are given on our schedule page.
The quiz will be given during the last 15 to 20 minutes of
class and must be turned in when the class period ends at 12:15 pm.
Your lowest quiz score will be dropped. To help you
prepare for these quizzes, each week I will post homework problems
and the corresponding solution keys. It is up to you to
practice these problems; we will not be collecting your answers, but
if you don't do the homework you will probably find the quizzes very
unpleasant. Your textbook is another wonderful source of
practice problems.

Exams: There will be
four 75 min open-book, open-note exams that will be given during the
normal class time. During the exam, you may use any resource that
does not have a heartbeat and does not connect to a cellular or
wireless network. Exam dates are noted on the schedule below,
so plan now. There will be no makeup exams and no dropped
scores. If you must miss an exam due to observance of
religious holidays, you are required by the University to notify the
instructor at least 14 days in advance. Otherwise, you can
only make up an exam by providing documented proof of a major life
trauma or emergency and only after consultation with the instructor.
Semester exams will focus on material introduced since the
previous exam; however, the subject that we are studying this
semester is inherently cumulative, so you will be expected to be
familiar with material not covered explicitly on each
exam.

Exam Rooms: The class will be split into
different rooms on exam days. Rooms will be announced the week
before, so please take note.

Final Exam: A 3 hr final exam will be given
12 December, 2-5 pm, in a location TBA.

Exam
Wrappers:After
each of our 4 semester exams, you must submit a self-evaluation of
your preparation and performance for the exam.This exercise is intended to help you identify and
correct specific obstacles that prevent you from doing your best
work on graded assignments.

Seminar
Attendance:As
an undergraduate at a R1 university, you are now a member of a
community of scholars that is creating new knowledge about the
world. During your
undergraduate career, your most significant education will almost
certainly not come from a classroom or textbook (although those
provide your foundation), but rather from experiential learning
through independent research or exploration.Scholars communicate new discoveries in a variety of
ways, but one of the most important is through seminars and talks.Here in CNS, we are fortunate to have the option of
attending an incredible number of seminars of original research on
every topic imaginable.Sometime this semester, I would like you to attend at least
one seminar of original research in CNS.Pick a topic that you think might be interesting to you,
and see what you learn.You
must turn in a one-page summary of this seminar describing the
topic, the person giving it, why you thought it would be
interesting, and what you learned.You may turn this in any time this semester, but it must
be submitted by the beginning of class on Tuesday, 22 November.

As your seminar progresses, I suspect that you
will quickly find yourself besieged by invitations to attend
faculty lectures and seminars. Here are some links for
seminar schedules around CNS:

Extra Credit: Several extra credit
assignments worth 5 points each will be given throughout the
semester.

CH108: CH108
(Conference Course - Intensive Chemistry Seminar) is a supplemental
honors level enrichment and enhancement seminar that follows the
course schedule of CH301H. CH108 is intended to develop your
problem solving skills by working through comprehensive honors level
problems in a group setting with immediate feedback from the
instructor and TAs. This is a 1 credit course that is graded
on a Pass / Fail basis. Although it is not required for you to
be enrolled in CH108 while taking CH301H, I strongly encourage you
to do so.

CH108 meets Monday / Wednesday 5:00 - 6:15 pm in CBA 4.344 (Unique
50310). The first class day will be 31 August 2016.
Students with Disabilities: The University of Texas
at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations
for qualified students with disabilities. For more
information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259,
471-6441 TTY. Any student with a documented physical or
cognitive disability who requires academic accommodations should do
this as soon as possible to request an official letter outlining
authorized accommodations for this course. If the
accommodation involves testing, you must remind the instructor at
least 5 business days before the scheduled exam.

Honor Code: As A student of
The University of Texas at Austin, I shall abide by the core values
of the University and uphold academic integrity.”The core values of the University are Learning, Discovery,
Freedom, Leadership, Individual Opportunity, and Responsibility.

Cheating
will not be tolerated in this course. Since such dishonesty harms
the individual, all students, and the integrity of the University,
policies on scholastic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. When
taking quizzes and exams, you may not use any electronic material
to assist you except for a calculator for completing arithmetic.
If any form of scholastic dishonesty is discovered, the student
will receive a grade of 0 for that assignment and be reported
immediately to Student Judicial Services in the Office of the Dean
of Students, where the student will be subject to disciplinary
penalties including the possibility of failure in this course
and/or dismissal from the University.